For images running on Kubernetes, there is no guarantee on how duplicate
environment variables in the image config will be handled. This seems
to be different from Docker, where the last environment variable value
is consistently selected.
The current code for `streamLayeredImage` was exploiting that assumption
to easily propagate environment variables from the base image, leaving
duplicates unchecked. It should rather resolve these duplicates to
ensure consistent behavior on Docker and Kubernetes.
It is now possible to pass a `fromImage` to `buildLayeredImage` and
`streamLayeredImage`, similar to what `buildImage` currently supports.
This will prepend the layers of the given base image to the resulting
image, while ensuring that at most `maxLayers` are used. It will also
ensure that environment variables from the base image are propagated
to the final image.
`stream_layered_image.py` currently assumes that the store root will be
at `/nix/store`, although the user might have configured this
differently. This makes `buildLayeredImage` unusable with stores having
a different root, as they will fail an assertion in the python script.
This change updates that assertion to use `builtins.storeDir` as the
source of truth about where the store lives, instead of assuming
`/nix/store`.
